Julie Wechsler

Dr. Julie Wechsler is the founder of Wellbeing Essentials in Phoenix, Arizona. Her passion is helping people and organizations discover and use their strengths to increase engagement and optimize well-being.

Julie began her career at IBM and has over 15 years of experience in leadership development and organizational change. More recently, Julie spent 10 years at a large, urban Community College supporting the design, implementation and evaluation of strengths and well-being initiatives. Through her contributions, college-wide programs were developed that produced measurable increases in strengths self-efficacy, engagement, and well-being for students, staff and faculty. Julie is a regular presenter at national education conferences on topics related to these programs, and on the topics of strengths, well-being and life transitions.

Julie’s academic preparation includes an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, a Master’s degree in Communication, and a B.A. in Business Administration. In addition to her Gallup Coach Certification, Julie also has earned certifications from Strengths Strategy, the IBM Advanced Business Institute, the Center for Creative Leadership and the College of Executive Coaching.